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The European Union and India will try to advance talks on a trade deal this week as the bloc’s demands for strict sustainability requirements have become a key stumbling block.

Washington will impose visa limits on some officials in China for their part in forcing Tibetan children to assimilate into mainstream Chinese society, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday.

Thaksin Shinawatra, who returned to Thailand from a 15-year self-exile on Tuesday, was moved to a hospital from a Bangkok prison after the former prime minister complained of chest pain and hypertension.

South African’s inflation slowed to the lowest level in two years last month, beating expectations and providing room for the central bank to continue keeping interest rates on hold.

The head of Swatch Group AG said the company’s Swatch and Tissot brands are outperforming the wider market for Swiss timepieces with exports for the entry-level watches rising sharply last month.

Nigeria’s stock exchange proposes allowing dollar-denominated bond listings and potentially expanding this to stocks, with the aim of easing foreign currency access for companies in Africa’s biggest economy.

The Singapore police are waiting for documents from at least nine financial institutions in their probe into one of the biggest money laundering cases in the country.

A final plan for Indonesia’s $20 billion climate deal could be in place by the end of October, according to Edo Mahendra, the head of the coordinating body for the Just Energy Transition Partnership, or JETP, a financing package President Joko Widodo agreed to last year with wealthy nations and a coalition of global financial institutions.

Spain’s King Felipe VI invited opposition leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo to try to form a government and avoid an extended political stalemate, even though the conservative politician has said he doesn’t have the necessary support from parliament.

Talks to avoid strikes at Australia’s biggest liquefied natural gas export terminal began Wednesday morning, as the threat to supply continues to rock global markets for the fuel.